One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I…

I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you…

— Steven Soderbergh

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a…

— Graeme Base

I'm definitely an athlete who has a hobby playing music. I've been doing baseball since I was 5 or 6. It's the only thing…

— Bronson Arroyo

If your hobby is playing sports, at the end of it you might get a few concussions.

— Tyler Childers

“Dad brought it home from Paris when Terese was five. What other kid that age had a $10,000 oboe?”

— S.A. Bodeen

I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have…

— Lola Kirke

For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety. But maybe…

— Marcel Tabuteau

When you play the oboe, the flute or other wind instruments, there is something between you and the breath; there is the embouchure, the…

— Michala Petri

I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.

— Lola Kirke

Band is the best when you play the oboe!!!!!

— Janeydean O'connor

“...he brought music of his own, and awakened every fairy echo with the tender accents of his oboe...”

— Ann Radcliffe

The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was…

— Lola Kirke

The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And the fingering's…

— Ogden Nash

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.

— Victor Borge

I play the keyboard, but I am fond of all wind instruments, the oboe in particular.

— Amit Trivedi